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Friday, June 26, 2015

If someone is under the erroneous impression that American society is
sexually permissive, then I may straight away tell you it is not. There are
tricky snares laid around that make the outdoor sex a costly and scary
undertaking. The sex culture here is a blend of queer paradoxes and intrigues
that can turn sour for the fun seekers. More often than not, it would be
difficult to distinguish between a street whore and an undercover female police
operative.

An individual desperately in search of a female could land himself in big
trouble enough to ruin his future as a blemished person for all time to come.
Those who are categorized as sex offenders carry this mill-stone for the rest
of their lives. Once caught, they are treated as pariah and outcast in the
society. The law is unforgiving and they would remain in jail for many
years.

They cannot live in common neighborhoods. Their dwellings should be far
from school zones and they should report to the area police from time to time.
In gutter magazines and tabloid papers their pictures are published. These papers
are placed at counters of big stores and can be viewed by customers.

The so called sting operations carried by the police have several outlets.
One would receive a sudden call from a female with an exceptionally tantalizing
and sweet offer to meet her in a lonely or secluded place. She would mention of
her being a teenage or young girl recklessly aspiring to make friendship or
have sex.

The young specifically from the immigrant communities, are usually
enticed and allured thinking that it was a free society so there was nothing
wrong by accepting the offer. He unwittingly falls into a laid-out trap.

When he reaches at the appointed location and had just started the
conversation with the female (a cover up police officer), he is pounced upon by
other operatives and thus starts a nightmarish phase of his life. The immigrant
victims of such operations are treated very harshly and even deported. I would
wonder why those who initiate sting operations to involve the unassuming victims
through a tricky trap are not taken to task.

In other situations, the male singles and fun seekers alike would drive at
such places mostly roadsides, where call girls make their appearance. But the
moment one gets into a conversation all of sudden a police car would barge in
and arrest the males letting off the girls. The girls are let off because they
would be accomplices in that drama of catching the sex offenders.

In United States if a woman maliciously or vindictively accuses someone of
sexual advances, it would be taken as a gospel truth. The first thing that the
police would resort to is to handcuff and shove the man in jail. It would take
a great deal of prolonged litigation that he could prove his innocence. The
false accuser is seldom booked for the suffering caused to a citizen based upon
concocted or blown up charges.

Polygamy is forbidden in America under the civil and religious laws. The
Mormons whose one sect believes in sexual promiscuity and polygamy cannot
follow their religious edits as it is forbidden to marry more than one woman at
one time. The Muslims also permitted by Islam to have more than one wife cannot
do so. And that is good by the way.

However, what nullifies all this farce or facade of keeping the
society immune from sexual predators is to, freely and uninhibitedly, allow the
teen age population to date( love mating or meeting), indulge in sex and have
children.

Primarily it should be the underage generation to be strictly
prohibited from sexual pursuits before the attainment of the adulthood. In
America every years a staggering amount of over 20 billion dollars is expended
on teen age mothers, delivery of the babies and follow up care and nursing.

Besides United States, the teen age motherhood is prevalent in most of the
western countries because of the sexual permissiveness for the youth. According
to a 2001 UNICEF survey in 10 out of 12 developed nations more than two
third of the young people have had sexual intercourse while still in their
teens. In Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Norway, the United Kingdom and
the United States, the proportion is as high as 75 per cent.

In America, due to co-education and almost no check on the young
generation and because of the biased legal protection, the teen age girls and
boys can have sex at an early age. The teen mothers drop out of the
high school during the pregnancy or after the delivery.

So do the male partners
who take up odd jobs to run the household and to bring up the child. They start
the family and household at a much younger age. In hostels where the female and
male students live together, the sexual intercourse is frequent.

The children are treated like holy cows to such an extent that an adult
even a female is not allowed to touch a teen-age boy or girl. Reportedly, many
a female teacher lost their jobs for touching a student. This is the height of
the sensitivity of discrimination in favor of boys and girls of minor age.

On
the contrary there is evidence of incest in American society which could be
caused because of the lack of moral awareness on this issue as well as children
being the easy targets in the privacy of homes.

In almost every country there are areas for the comfort females to carry out
their business that is permissible under the law. The redeeming feature of that
aspect is that one could release his pent- up sexual urge at such secluded yet
highly guarded zones. In those countries the neighborhoods remain immune from
sex predators. But here in America the outdoor sex is drastically curbed like
in conservative Islamic societies.

Yet in practice, even in Islamic countries where rape, molestation or free
sex is deemed as a social and religious crime, one can go to any length to give
vent to his sexual needs. There are call girls available round the clock in
both Islamic and un-Islamic societies for a price. I would not mention places
like Bangkok and the whole Far East and the Scandinavian belt where sex is
accessible and as cheap and common as one can order a meal or buy a shirt from
the market.

The pristine concept of celibacy was strictly adhered to by the Christians
of the first four centuries. They generally observed sexual restraint, eschewed
polygamy, rejected the extra marital sexual practices such as prostitution and
homosexuality divorce, abortion, and exposure to death of unwanted infants. Bu
the later generations of the priestly class desecrated this golden edit to
their hearts’ fill. Just to mention two cases of nauseating degeneracy of the
Roman Catholic papacy in recent times.

If allowing sex in controlled areas is anti-Christianity or a social vice,
then all the priests and clergy class would have been as pious as Jesus Christ
was. But history of Christendom testifies that these were the churches and
cathedrals where worst kind of sexual debauchery has been going on for
ages.

Even in recent times, many priests have been posthumously charged with
molesting hundreds of innocent children in church schools and ministries run
under their supervision to impart Christian education. So where do we draw the
line as to who is pious and who is not?

Priest Lawrence C Murphy a pedophile predatory priest sexually preyed upon
200 defenseless, innocent, adolescent deaf young boys and girls for 24 years
(1950-1974). Another priest (Rev.) Brendan Smyth died in jail 13 years ago
while serving 12 years for 74 sexual assaults on children. And there are
countess such gory incidents encompassing several centuries of diabolic
violation of basic Christian teachings.

The purpose of alluding to these examples is to bear out that in order to
satisfy their hedonistic desires how the humans wantonly trample the Jesus’
reverent ministry based upon piety and rectitude. The Catholic Church has been
paying millions of dollars as compensation to the victims of sinful priests.

Paradoxically the rape culture is rife in the armed forces of the United
States. There are countless complaints about the rape and forcible sex within
the army. The rapes are either not reported by the victims or if reported these
are either hushed up or seldom probed and the perpetrators prosecuted. One
example of this trend of sexual perversion pertains to Naval Station Great
Lakes where sailors receive specialized training.

A Pentagon survey reported by New York Times revealed
that the number of sexual assaults during 2012 in that Naval Station alone rose
to 26,000. One can imagine the enormity of the uncontrollable sexual lust or
carnal urge as to override the professional ethics and integrity in such a
brazen fashion.

There is also pervasive adultery and sexual encroachments in the offices,
shops and work places by the owners or the bosses on their subordinate female
staff. Such incidents go mostly unreported and hidden because the females fear
losing jobs and prefer to keep such incidents secret from their families. Such
are the queer paradoxes that bedevil our society.

I shall omit a detailed opinion on the epidemic of same sex marriages. It
would be difficult to rationalize or justify a man marrying a man and woman
with woman. Living as friends could bear some logic but entering into
matrimonial bonds like female and males in fact defies a rational
explanation.

At best or worst it could be explained a kind of homosexuality in case of
two males and a kind of lesbian propensity in case of the females living
together as partners. Indeed it cannot be for procreation of the human progeny.
The underlying purpose could also be to share the burden of life and to draw
the state benefits as married partners.

Now in Europe and elsewhere in the world there are brothels for a
permissible sexual activity. Here in our country the brothel or red zone area
are unthinkable. The result is the frequent incidence of rape, forced
molestation and similar heinous acts by the lecherous individuals.

Absence of brothels though is very plausible from moral point of view, yet
it has its pernicious fallout. The sex seekers then explore the massage
parlors; hook-up the stray girls on the roadsides or from the pubs and clubs.
More often than not it turns out to be costly, risky and troublesome affair.

By curbing the option for a permissible sex in marked outlets interspersed
in Far East and the European countries, the American society in fact forces the
sexually deviants to change their partners through divorcing and
remarrying.

It is for these compelling reasons that there is a high rate of divorces
in this country (60 %).For the affluent and rich individuals; it might not be
hurtful and economically disturbing. But for an ordinary person with meager
means and limited resources, it entails a host of mental and financial
sufferings.

Those among the citizenry who cannot afford to enter the rigmarole of
divorce and remarrying go into the sordid pursuit of rapes or outdoor sex
relations. There have been several instances reported in the press that
the rapists killed their victims to wash off the evidence.

In a nutshell this society gives a free hand to the teen age boys and
girls to have free sex, the girls to become pregnant and for the couple to
leave the education incomplete. On the other hand, the adults under the burden
of stringent conditions resort to criminal options for sex that land them
either in jail, burden them with enormous financial difficulties and
segregation from the society as offenders. Many among those who divorce and
remarry suffer from economic hardships besides psychological and mental
disorders.

For children born out of the previous marriages, the separation of parents
is traumatic and would leave deep scars on their tender minds due to separation
of their parents. And let us not forget the crushing burden of child support
that turns many males and females paupers.

The simple solution of this conundrum is that during their schooling, the
teen age dating in school premises or in class rooms should be sternly curbed
for which a strategy can be worked out with the help of teachers and parents.

If adults find more liberal environment and resort to permissive outlets
minus sting forays, it could drastically reduce the divorce rate, curtail
abhorrent crimes as rape and sexual assaults. It could be instrumental is
halting to a reasonable scale the separation of families for the sake of having
a new sex partner.

This society has got to be realistic. Even now the covert
sex cartels are operating. But utilizing those is dangerous and exposing
oneself to a Pandora-box of troubles.

The writer is a senior journalist,
former editor of Diplomatic Times and a former diplomat.This and other articles
by the writer can also be read at his blog www.uprightopinion.com.

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

I was rather fascinated by the uncalled for yet daring outburst of the PPP boss and former president of Pakistan Asif Ali
Zardari in Islamabad on June 16, against the Rangers now busy in busting the
criminal gangs, their dens and abettors. But I would be more delighted if the
Rangers or the sitting government of PMLN comes up with a befitting retort of
the sort.

So there is an eerie silence on the
Rangers ‘front. Besides some muted
utterances from army’s spokespersons or media analysts, the army chief General
Raheel Sharif and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif have merely reiterated their
resolve to carry forward the onslaught against the corrupt politicians, civil
servants, profiteers and anti-social mafias.

Asif Ali Zardari is known for
demonstrating peaceful overtures and possessing inborn talent for fruitful
negotiations with his political rivals. Ostensibly, in the backdrop of Rangers’
crackdown, he aims at structuring a coalition of political forces for an end to
Rangers' engagement in ridding Karachi specifically and Pakistan generally of the diabolic stranglehold of blood hounds and heartless mafias stalking the
largest city of Pakistan for a variety of nefarious goals depending upon which mafia
they belong.

In his brief discourse, Zardari’s
tone and tenor was stunningly aggressive. He did not mince words nor was
apprehensive of whom he was addressing and what he was conveying. He was candid
in his expressions that were pregnant with some kind of retaliation to Rangers’
punitive assault against the pervasive crime
culture that he termed as “teasing us”.

He categorically warned the army to be
on guard otherwise he would jam the entire country from FATA to Karachi with
one call. Addressing the COAS he belittled him by pointing out that he was
there for three years and then will leave his office.

Zardari claimed to be in possession
of a long list of corrupt army generals from the inception of Pakistan to the
present. He sternly warned that he would
make their names public if the drive of vilification against him and his party
is not abandoned. He said that his party knows how to fight back and once this
fight starts he would create mayhem.

This is clearly a call for civil
disobedience movement and head on collision with armed forces. The COAS General
Raheel Sharif and prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif have responded to Zardari’s
ultimatum by simply reiterating their resolve to continue the on-going anti-crime
blitz in Karachi along with annihilating the religious militant bands in FATA.

The Zardari’s manovre to forge an
alliance against the army has been spurned by the PMLN government while it has
been accepted by the MQM. But MQM itself is under heavy clouds of sedition and
internal subversion against the state and the people of Pakistan. The details and
contours of that role have recently been exposed by BBC. It has become a hot topic
for social media outlets and Television channels.

These two parties, now coalition
partners in Sindh government are blamed to be behind the rampant and prolonged
lawlessness, colossal corruption and financial plunder reported to be reaching
a staggering figure of 230 billion rupees. The culprits and outlaws apprehended
by Rangers in Karachi revealed that most of these elements committing
exhortation, kidnapping, stealing and selling water, occupying the land both
private and state owned are patronized by MQM and PPP.

Now Zardari is not a Bhutto and the
ground realities are not as volatile or ripe as those were in the aftermath of India-Pakistan
war in 1965 that was vociferously and tactfully exploited by ZAB Bhutto to oust
from power a powerful military head of state Filed Marshall Ayub Khan. The
peoples’ fatigue with the military long military rule, the signing of the Tashkent
Pact with India became the bête-noir of Ayub Khan.

Bhutto also manipulated to
his advantage the mercurial situation brewing after the 1970 elections although
his refusal to attend the national assembly session in Dacca is interpreted an
implicit factor for the division of Pakistan into Bangladesh and West Pakistan.

Of late, late Benazir’s role along
with other political forces and civil institutions brought about another
landmark breakthrough that paved way for the onset civilian and democratic
rule. Benazir's untimely death cleared the way through a will (whose only one
page is shown to the people) for Asif Zardari to wear two hats of power: one to
be the PPP’s Chairman (CO) and the other that of president of Pakistan. Now Zardari,
despite some of his good achievements such as 18th amendment, could
not eschew his propensity for amassing wealth and erasing the blot of being the
most corrupt person in Pakistan.

With a supposedly renegade party
like MQM and coterie of incorrigibly corrupt individuals in the PPP government
and a weak chief minister, the corruption turned into a kind of epidemic that
afflicted a small government functionary to the highest level of a minister.
There has been field day all along during the previous PPP federal and provincial
governments and the ongoing coalition of MQM and PPP that all records of
harvesting money through every corrupt and coercive means have been broken.

The ministers and their hired gangs
and mafias have been involved in a multitude of grabbing vacant private or
government land, sale of municipal water, licenses for fish harbors, and exit
and entry fees in the port and so on. It
means that those who should be the saviors and custodians of the life and
property of the citizens and guardians of the societal peace are themselves robber
barons, patrons of cutthroat mafias and enemies of the people.

The crackdown of Rangers followed after
a consensus among the political parties, appears to be as a sword of Damocles
hanging over the heads of hardened offenders and die-hard criminals

If the Rangers' mission of
cleansing the city of Karachi from the wicked elements, fifth columnists,
traitors, saboteurs and predators is left half way, it would be like condoning an
all embracing mayhem and throwing the helpless people before the hungry wolves.

The agents of the enemies within and outside Pakistan, the clandestine saboteurs,
callous mafias and trigger happy merciless Assassins of present times would keep
wrecking Karachi by their insidious activities and perpetration of multifaceted
crime.

Friday, June 19, 2015

It appears that now
the big fish both erstwhile and in power have started feeling the pinch of the
anti-corruption drive pedaled by the Rangers in Karachi. It is a known fact
that the MQM and PPP alternately ruling in Karachi have been milking the national
exchequer and encouraging the unrelenting spate of lawlessness and crimes for
years now.

With the backing and
support of the power wielders like ministers and senior government officials,
the crimes gangs have a free hand to rob and kill the businessmen, the traders
and industrialists without any let or hindrance. From unlawful sale of water to
extortion of money from the shopkeepers and robbing the banks had the tacit
support and patronage of the stalwarts of PPP and MQM.

Additionally the
stray gangs of the religious lot, professional hardened criminals, the bounty
hunters of all hues and shades also joined this mayhem to blackmail and harass
the common people as well as the business classes for payments of extortion
money and forcible seizure of the properties. Those who dithered or resisted
were put to death, maimed or brutalized in other manners.

The police and normal
law enforcement agencies like police failed to curb or bridle the escalating
crime. Rather many members of the police and intelligence agencies had to lose
their lives in combating the outlaws that are having a state within a state and
have the tacit cover from the power wielders. One can imagine further loss of
life and disruption of business in Karachi if the Rangers had not stepped in and
rein in the serial killers and tiger happy murderers.

While the successive
incumbent provincial governments in Sindh have utterly failed because of their
connivance in proliferation of lawlessness and exhibiting scant concern of the
deteriorating law and order and public peace, it was an overdue decision to
hand over Karachi to well trained Rangers to combat and eliminate the
perpetrators of crime, sabotage, lawlessness and killing sprees.

The Rangers
have been doing a highly commendable and historic job restoring peace and order
in a city that had turned into a haven for the enemies of the country and that
had sinister motives to inflict harm to the economic and industrial activities
at the behest of the internal traitors or the external enemies.

While crime incidence
has drastically come down in Karachi it is imperative that this purge of the
crime mongers is continued till Karachi is cleansed of the crime. Now the
Rangers have started apprehending the crooks and thieves of those who massed
money through misuse of power in allotting property, real estate and also in
doling out ghost jobs.

The massive funds for development projects for health
and education and development have been diverted and grossly misused by the
officialdom and bureaucracy. The corruption and lack of accountability and the
misuse of powers have been rampant not only in Karachi but elsewhere in the
country.

The sources of the
inflow of unhindered money from pilferage and sale of water, from robberies and
looting banks and the common people and the business classes are now drying up.
And that is why the leaders of the PPP and the MQM are questioning the role of
the Rangers.

The statement of Asif
Zardari that he has a long list of the corrupt army generals and that the army
should stop teasing them is as surprising as it is foolish in the prevailing
circumstances.When Asif Zardari
threatens army “not to tease us” he is hinting at not touching the water mafia,
the land braggers and misuse of official authorities, the ministers and their minions
and foot soldiers.

It is known to everyone the the incumbent PPP ministers and
their appointed officers have done everything possible to amass money and for
that did not even wink an eye on miserable plight of the people and the city
deteriorating. If the rangers or for that matter the army steps backs then it
would mean the victory of the corrupt officialdom and bureaucracy as well as
thugs, criminal gangs and brutal mafias.

This would
rather impel the army to move with greater speed and tempo to unearth the
sleazy characters within the government and the politics who encouraged and
benefited from the years of lawlessness and break down of the law and order
making Karachi and the rest of country a kind of hell and the most unsafe.

It is good that Mian
Nawaz Sharif has put off his scheduled meeting with belligerent Asif Zardari
which was aimed at winning the support of the incumbent federal government for
putting up a combined confrontational posture against the armed forces.

Had the
meeting taken place the army would have gotten a wrong message. This could have
also undermined the sincerity of the government towards the army action in
Karachi and in northern areas against the militants?

The other dimension
could be that by seeing the party in power and PPP in league, the army could
have thought of martial law which would have been the worst scenario for
Pakistan and continuation of democracy. It can be the most desirable
development for India and internal enemies. In that situation Pakistan would
have gone back to square one with a throwback to Zia and Musharraf’s military
eras scuttling democracy and people empowerment.

As such the Rangers
and the armed force should keep on performing their monumental and historic
role in clearing Pakistan both from the hardened criminal gangs and corrupt
elements as well the religious militants waging their bloody war against the
people and state of Pakistan.

The Chief Minister
Syed Qaim Ali Shah is a weak and dysfunctional person and his letter to the DG
Rangers not to exceed the mandate is a resonance of the Zardari statement about
the corrupt army generals.

Since the Sindh provincial government of PPP would
be reluctant to support Rangers for known reasons, the only viable way-out for
the Rangers is to continue its operations is to declare governor rule
with a limited mandate in that troubled province. That change would give a free
hand to the Rangers to continue its operations that are aimed at saving
Pakistan and Karachi from outlaws.

In
the meantime two former prime minister of Pakistan Raja Pervez Ashraf and
Yousuf Raza Gilani have voluntarily resigned from their positions in the
Pakistan People’s Party that demonstrates the internal rift within the party on
ill-timed, imprudent and provocative statement of Mr. Zardari

Monday, June 15, 2015

The international apathy and silence on the
persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar (Burma) and Bangladesh is deplorable.
Can there be a more miserable and hapless situation of any segment of the
inhabitants of earth than the semi-nude Rohingya Muslims strolling aimlessly
and desperately along the coasts while the world watches them with folded hands
and in complete disregard of the disaster these people are exposed to? The state
sponsored carnage of the tiny Muslim minority, is hurling up a colossal
humanitarian disaster.

Would the
conscience of the international Humanitarian relief agencies including UNHCR,
the Islamic world and NGOs awaken on the most tragic plight of the Rohingya
Muslims who deserve to be treated at least as human beings?

Rohingya Muslims are known to be the most persecuted minorities on earth
and victims of apartheid, violence
and extermination, not only in Burma but also in Bangladesh. Since the
imposition of military dictatorshipin Burma in 1978( now it is a
presidential democratic government backed by military),

While several thousand
Rohingya wander in the sea in ramshackle boats, about 140,000 are
confined in IDP (internally displaced persons) camps in most humiliating
conditions within both the countries. They are denied access to medical
assistance, food and educational facilities.

The Muslim population in Burma is estimated
to be 4 per cent of the entire population of around 60 million. It comes to
roughly 2.4 million. The Rohingya Muslims living in Myanmar or Burma are residing in the
northernmost townships of Arakan state bordering Bangladesh. About one million live overseas.In
the2014 Burma Census, they have
been classified as “statelessBengali Muslims” from Bangladesh since
1982.

The Muslims have been living in Myanmar along
with other communities for ages and it is in recent years that they are being
treated as outsiders or aliens. They look like Burmese in features and speak
the same language. Briefly they are native Burmese except that they profess a
different faith in a country whose predominant population believes in
Buddhism.

While
Buddhists preach peace, tolerance and compassion, in the case of Muslims there
seems to be an unholy alliance between the Burmese establishment and the
Buddhists monks for brutalizing the defenseless Muslims. It is suspected that
the Burma's large and much feared military intelligence service, the
‘Directorate of Defense Security Intelligence’ may have agents planted within
the monk-hood.

In 2015 alone, in order to escape unrelenting violence and persecution
by both the Burmese and Bangladesh governments, some 25,000 Rohingya Muslims
have tried to to escape toSoutheast
Asiancountries includingMalaysia,Indonesiaand Thailand in rickety boats through the waters of theStrait of Malaccaand theAndaman Sea. But most of these rootless people
could not get entry and thus remain in the boats.

In the backdrop of the Rohingya Muslims misery, one is
reminded of the East Timor’s ethnic crisis when the Indonesian Islamic regime
was accused of maltreating and suppressing the Christian population there. The
entire Christian world with Australia in the lead, under the aegis of the
United Nations truncated Indonesia. On May 20, 2002, East Timor separated
from Indonesia and became an independent Christian state.

Likewise the
western countries and particularly the United States pressurized and
isolated president Omar Al-Bashir of the Republic of Sudan
(North Sudan) to such an extent that he finally gave in and agreed to the
cessation of South Sudan as an independent country. South Sudan became an
independent state on 9 July 2011. The population of Christians in the
south is 80 percent while that of Muslim is 18 per cent.

Understandably the
division of Sudan was maneuvered to create a separate independent state for the
Christians so as to live in peace and to save them from the civil war.

In former
Yugoslavia, the NATO saved Muslim population from a brutal spree of ethnic
cleansing by the Serbian army and that was one of the most marked human relief
and rescue by the Christian west for the sake of the oppressed Muslims.

The Bosnian
Serb army committed atrocious and most heinous genocide against the Muslims and
Bosnian Croats in 1995. Besides, a bloody campaign of ethnic cleansing of
Muslims was also carried out throughout the areas controlled by
the Bosnian Serb Army during the 1992–1995 Bosnian War.

The
United Nations and NATO”s role (April 1933-December 1995) in ending genocide
and ethnic cleansing of the Bosnian Muslims by the Serbian military is a
golden chapter of history. Otherwise the Muslims would have been reduced to a
tiny minority in their own territories.

Hopefully
among the comity of nations, two countries can play a vital and decisive role
in rescuing besieged and distressed Muslims of Burma. One is Saudi Arabia that
can exert her influence and persuade other Muslim countries to approach the
United Nations for an urgent action on the miserable plight of the Burmese
Muslims and the grave existential threat to them.

Saudi Arabia and Pakistan and
other Muslim states can also approach the Burmese regime urging it to stop the
persecution and intimidation of the Burmese Muslims that are entitled to equal
rights as citizens including that of religious freedom under the constitution.

Secondly, it
is China that is in the strongest position to exert her clout to ask the
Burmese leaders to desist from their bestiality against the Muslim population. If
the Burmese incumbent government continues its brutal extermination of Muslims,
then it would lose its good image as a democratic regime established after long
spell of military dictatorship.

The stated
official policy of the government of Burma is that “all ethnic, religious, and
language groups in Burma are equal”. The Burmese Supreme Court observed in a
verdict that “in various parts of Burma, there are people who, because of the
origin and the isolated way of life, are totally unlike the Burmese in appearance
or speak of events which had occurred outside the limits of their habitation.

They are nevertheless statutory citizens under the Union (of Burma) Citizenship
Act”

In case of
Burmese Muslims’ nightmare, the NATO's role is not at all needed. This grave
humanitarian calamity is in need of diplomatic efforts to prevail upon the
Burmese government to stop aggression against a community living there for ages
and is essentially Burmese.

It is not a question of a separate independent land
for them. It is essentially to guarantee their survival, security and equality
within the Republic of the Union of Myanmar against the burgeoning ethnic and
religious challenges to them.

It would be a colossal catastrophe and tantamount
to a slap on the face of humanity if Rohingya Muslims are allowed to perish on
the high seas or die in Burma or Bangladesh because of inhuman conditions,
starvation, hunger and lack of basic facilities to survive.

On 7 May 2014, the United State House of Representatives passed the "United States House Resolution on Persecution of Rohingya people in Burma" that called on the government of Burma
to end the discrimination and persecution.

During his
May 21-22 visit to Burma although the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony J.
Blinken emphasized the importance of continued political, economic, and social
reforms it is imperative that United States puts her pressure on the Burmese
government to treat the Rohingya Muslims like other minorities and stop their
persecution and brutalization.

Monday, June 1, 2015

In order to find out who is living and where living it is
utterly imperative to conduct a snap survey cum a census in Pakistan without
waiting for the next census due in April 2016. The traditional censuses in 2008 and 2010
could not be conducted and that of 2012 was discarded as unreliable.

I am proposing a nontraditional snap census
that would focus on exploring the number of dwellings and housing units in Pakistan
and their inmates and the foreign nationals both legal and illegal.

Besides having the total tally
of population the census would help in finding out the demographic complexion
as to who is living in villages, cities and elsewhere. This census might as
well be useful in elections and for finding out how many children, adults, old
people and women are there in the length and breadth of Pakistan.

It might
unravel the scale of literacy and illiteracy. So there could be a wide range of
advantages accruing from such monumentally productive campaign

But apart from these peripheral
useful outcomes, it would reveal how many foreigners or aliens both legal and
illegal are living in Pakistan and for how long. Those who cannot be identified
or counted through this extremely useful exercise should be declared as persona-non-grata and either forcibly repatriated to their respective countries or
sorted out in regards to their activities.

Those who have valid reasons to stay
might be allowed for the permissible time period and then asked to leave the
country. Some unaccounted aliens might be involved in terrorism mayhem in
Pakistan.

Pakistan has been under an unremitting
spell and incidence of violence and terrorism for a few decades being spawned
and carried on by diverse groups to implant their respective nefarious agendas.
From Baloch separatists to the merciless bands of religious militants and the
professional criminal gangs aided by political forces and external enemies have
been wreaking havoc in Pakistan and destroying its social peace, economy and
stability.

In Karachi specifically and the
elsewhere in Pakistan generally, countless people have lost their lives at the
hands of the Taliban and home-grown religious militants for imposing the Sharia
rule of their choice on Pakistan.

The Sectarian violence has taken its toll
with minority sects being targeted by the majority sects. The bounty hunters,
the trigger happy killers and extortion gangs etc rob and kill the peaceful
citizens as and when they want. It is indeed an atrocious mayhem.

Although the violence and crime
can be mainly apportioned to homegrown criminal gangs and sectarian parties,
yet the foreign hand and external involvement cannot be ruled out to keep
Pakistan in a state of perpetual disorder and instability. One would not wink
an eye over the Indian spy agency RAW’s support for the Baloch separatists and
other stray groups and individuals for perpetuating the cycle of violence and
terrorism in Pakistan.

In the backdrop of all these
frightening happenings it should be a dire priority to sift the corn from the
chaff or to identify the enemies of the state and people of Pakistan. The
sabotage and continuous spate of murders, bomb blasts, suicide attacks, blowing
of trains and buses, blasting the educational institutions assailing airports
and military installations cannot be done by the ordinary people. Such
horrendous acts can only be done by highly organized and trained mafias aided
and abetted by the external inimical elements.

The law and order situation has
become precarious to this extent in Pakistan that one needs only a revolver or
knife to kidnap a peaceful citizen, kidnap or rape women, barge into a house
and decamp with all the precious belongings of the inmates or gun down the
passengers in a vehicle.

For more serious crimes as blasting a mosques of the
rival sect, blowing a bus or train, attacking
naval or air force bases, extract ransom or monthly extortions from the
harried business parties, there are powerful and highly organized and armed
gangs making a mockery of the law and order enforcement network.

So miraculously or mercifully
when Rangers and Pakistan army have achieved major breakthroughs in combating
and curbing rampant crime and dogged terrorism in Karachi, it would be most
desirable and urgent to carry out a census to discover the individuals and the
groups both local and aliens who are involved in destabilizing Pakistan.

The
Data so collected should be preserved and updated from time to time. A list of
the people having licensed arms needs to be prepared and those having
unlicensed weapons must be dealt with summarily and given punishments
permissible under the law.

It is indeed indispensable and overdue that the
Afghan refugees who came to Pakistan during and in the aftermath of the anti-
Soviet Union Afghan war (1979-1989) should be repatriated back to Afghanistan
.The exodus of 4 million Afghans from Pakistan would create a huge reservoir
of jobs for the real Pakistanis and this would serve as a veritable solution of
the unemployment and eradication of poverty.

The Afghan refugees cannot be
assimilated nor should they be given nationality as it takes centuries for any
race with different culture and language to fully adopt another nation’s
culture and social milieu. Moreover the Afghans are not homeless and were
allowed to stay until the end of the Afghan war. That war is now over for many
years but the Afghans are still present on the soil of Pakistan as refugees.

If at all any community is to be
allowed to stay in Pakistan and become citizens they are those Bengalis who
supported Pakistan army and a united Pakistan during the tumultuous period of
civil war in 1971-72. They deserve to be accepted in Pakistan as its citizens
or given any status that befits their situation for a legal residence in
Pakistan.

This segment of society has
been suffering, all these years, from horrendous atrocities and maltreatment. They
have been languishing in miserable conditions in isolated pockets in
Bangladesh. They have been isolated and marginalized from the rest of the
Bengali nation and shoved and confined to make shits huts and bamboo dwellings
with scant civic or social facilities.

Pakistan needs to be cleaned
off both internal and external elements bent upon proving it as a failed state.
To find the identities and whereabouts of internal saboteurs and anti state
elements, the best mechanism is to conduct census as proposed in this write up.

About Me

Columnist/Analyst/ Former Diplomat.
After obtaining my master’s degrees in Urdu and English literature from Punjab University, I started my career by teaching in a college. Thereafter, I had a stint in the diplomatic service of Pakistan. Finally I landed in journalism, an occupation that I am wedded to for over 20 years now.
I am a strong believer in a civil society and staunch opponent of exploitation in all forms.